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greenish-grey, clouded with dusky black, nnd more or less 

 powdered with small patches of opaque white minute dots. 

 The whole surface, except the sole of the foot, is beautifully 

 veined with blackish-brown, the veins crowded, and running 

 in an irregular manner longitudinally ; decorated with remote 

 oscillations, with briWiant light blue pupils, the iris deep 

 brown, and encircled with ochre-yellow shadings ; cirrhi pale, 

 sole of the foot powdered with minute irregular flakes of white 

 and pale brown, which, under the lens, are composed of clus- 

 ters of minute dots. 



